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UPDATE: Shoplifting Couple Hits Louis Vuitton in El Paseo

Deputies continue search for couple who stole from El Paseo store.

This story was last updated Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. with descriptions of suspects.

Two shoplifters at the Louis Vuitton store on El Paseo pushed past a clerk who tried to stop them from leaving the store Tuesday, and then jumped into a waiting car, a Riverside County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.

The crime in the 73-500 block of El Paseo was reported about 1:15 p.m.,
according to Deputy Angel Ramos.

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The couple took several pieces of high value luggage before pushing thier way out of the store.

Two suspects are now being looked for:

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  • Suspect number one was described as a black male in his 30's with braided hair, approximately 6 feet tall, weighing 180 pounds.
  • Suspect number two was described as a black female in her 30's, approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 250 pounds. 

Both fled in a white four-door sedan.

Anyone with more information was urged to call deputies at the Palm Desert station at (760) 836-1600.

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